. . . . . . . . . . الاتحاد العالمى للاقليات من اجل السلام: the Holocaust of Copts

Monday, October 10, 2011

the Holocaust of Copts

Statement condemning the Holocaust of Copts by Egyptian armed forces
With the blessing of Tantawi and Annan and the Media’s support for Osama Heikal The information Minister
The Coptic organizations Union in Europe, along with the World Minorities United for peace Organization in the United States, condemn the triumph of shame for Egyptian armed forces under the leadership of Tantawi and Annan in crushing the Copts Sunday October 9. During their peaceful protests, in an unequal battle between peaceful demonstrators and armed troops equipped with mechanisms and vehicles and the number of combat, The Copts were crushed by vehicles and armed forces vehicles. The Copts unarmed the heads of several Copts exploded under the wheels of armored vehicles and numerous corpses mutilated by the stampede on their faces, and many Copts were killed by live bullets. In more scenes than we see from racist enemy troops against the unarmed Palestinians, and amid the Egyptian Lullaby of media misinformation and its role in injecting the public hate against the peaceful Copts demonstrators.
What happened, can be only qualified in international custom as a new holocaust against a peaceful group of people who wanted to express their rejection of abuse against an unarmed peaceful minority and the destruction of their churches by the people under the blessing of the government. The attack of the army on the peaceful demonstrators consecrates the reputation of the Egyptian army leadership and brings international condemnation of the use of excessive force against unarmed civilians just for being of different belief.
We also condemn the Egyptian television for falsely misleading and lying in covering the massacre caused by the army. Instead of reporting the truth, they injected more racism against the peaceful Coptic citizens. The Egyptian Media chose to join the perpetrator against the victims and changed the story to make the perpetrator to appear as a victim to instigate more public hate against peaceful demonstrators who only wanted to claim the right to cry.

The Egyptian television asked the Public to officially uphold the armed forces and protect them from the Copts. This is not just a hoax and a plain out lie, but it also shows the amount of hatred, immorality and racism against the Coptic minority...
The events of the attacks on Copts and priests in Maspero, is another episode in the series of scaring the Copts unfortunately not by Islamic terrorists, but the armed forces which is tax-funded by citizens like the Copts. The misleading Egyptian Media is also a partner in this crime while it is also funded by taxes from the public including the Copts.
As we announce our repulsion of the press releases of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, which prove lack of credibility and walk on the same system and methods of lies and misinformation in downplaying the crushing of the Copts who were killed by the armed forces.

As we will not be silent about this cowardly despicable racial act by the armed forces and will demonstrate in front of the free world because those criminal acts that stand as a declaration of war and racism against the peaceful people in Egypt.
We also offer genuine thanks and gratitude to the honest media in the Arab channel, dream TV, who covered the massacre and showed how a free and sincere media should cover history and in their coverage we have the prove of the misleading lies aired by the Egyptian Television.
We also offer our thanks to all the Egyptian Muslim brothers who participated in the peaceful demonstrations with the Copts. People like you give us hope that not all the Egyptian public is poisoned by the hatred and racism against the Copts. Citizens like you are an important element in exposing the treachery of the armed forces and misinformation of the Egyptian Media.
Coptic organizations Union in Europe, General Coordinator of Union
Medhat necklace magdy Youssef
World Minorities United for Peace, President Dr. Nabil Asaad

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The Cultural Genocide of Egypt's Christian Copts By Mary Abdelmassih

The Egyptian Government, In a new step in long-term and premeditated process of obliterating Coptic identity and history, has decided to change the name of the Coptic village of Deir Abu Hennis, in the Upper Egyptian province of Mallawi, Minya. The village was founded in the 4th century AD on the grounds of the Monastery of St. Hennis the Short, a much revered Coptic Saint. The new name chosen by the Government is "Valley of Peppermint."
More than four thousand Coptic villagers demonstrated on Thursday June, 11 against this forced change, vowing to fight to the end to keep the name of their village. They carried banners with slogans such as 'Let us all die and May Abu Hennis live for ever' and "We, the inhabitants of the village refuse the change in the name of our village and we want it to remain as it is. It is our right and our demand"
The inhabitants of the village, who are 100% Copts, are not only angry because the Minister of Justice,issued an order to change the name of their village into "Valley of Peppermint," but because this decision was made on 4/12/2009, but they were informed on 6/9/2009.
Upon hearing of the news, the Copts in Deir Abu Hennis village sent on 6/9/2009 a plea to all concerned authorities and Coptic NGOs, expressing their anger at this decision. They made a petition which was signed by 35,000 village inhabitants.
They believe that this change in the names of Coptic villages is premeditated and did not come as a result of a whim on the part of the local council, otherwise why does the Minister of Justice get involved, even though this does not gall under his jurisdiction.
In an effort to pacify the villagers, the Governor of Minya immediately contacted the director of Mallawi City Council and sent him to the village to try and calm the angry crowd, and promised to reverse decision of the Minister of Justice to change the name of the village. However, he told them that this will require some time and promised to try to have this done by next Thursday.
Attorney Dr. Naguib Gibraeel, President of the 'Egyptian Union' Organiztion for Human Rights filed a petition against the Minister of Justice, the Governor of Minya, the Minister of Culture and the Prime Minister in his capacity as head of ministers and governors, to stop the change in the name of the village of Deir Abu Hennis. His plea was founded on grounds that this decision is an obliteration of the Egyptian identity and the Coptic history as an integral part of the history and civilization of Egypt.
Numerous Egyptian satellite channels including OTV, owned by Coptic tycoon Saweiress, filmed the demonstration and interviewed the demonstrators. According to Free Copts reporters, State Security tried to prevent the media and attempted to confiscate the video tapes, but were prevented fom doing so by the villagers.
The government tried previously in 1964 to change the name of the same village, also to "Valley of Peppermint", but faced with the villager's opposition, it reversed its decision and the order was cancelled through a Presidential decree issued in 1979.
Dr. Gibraeel has been protesting for several years against the changing of Coptic names, whether of streets, squares or areas and substituting them with Islamic names, which has been going on for some time, and spreads all over Egypt from Aswan to Alexandria. To raise awareness of this on-going phenomenon, he previously filed petitions against the Governor of Cairo for substituting Coptic names of places of interest with Muslim ones around Cairo.
Coptic Bishop Thomas of El-Qussia Diocese, Upper Egypt, gave a lecture last July at the Hudson Institute entitled "The Experience of the Middle East's largest Christian community during a time of rising Islamization." He talked about the dilemma of the Copts who kept their Christianity, and identity as Egyptians who have their own culture, in the face of their fellow citizens who have adopted an Arab culture and identity. "Now when you look at a Copt, you don't see only a Christian, you see an Egyptian who is trying to keep his identity versus another imported identity that is working on him," he said.
As a reaction to this lecture more than 200 articles appeared in the Egyptian Media attacking Bishop Thomas, asserting the Arab and Islamic identity of Egypt, others called for putting him on trial charged with 'treason', while one Imam called for his death.
Dr. Gibraeel also appealed today to the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, responsible for safeguarding the cultural heritage of Egypt, asking for his intervention. A meeting is scheduled between them on Thursday, 6/18/2009.
The village of Abu Hennis is placed on Egypt's tourist map, and tourists come from all over the world to visit it as part of the history and culture of the Copts of Egypt going back to the 4th century AD. "It represents an assault on the country's national wealth, and gives rise to sectarian tensions, as the name of Deir (Monastery) of St. Hennis the Short, is a source of religious pride to the Copts, and part of the history of the martyrs of the Coptic Orthodox Church," he said.
As a warning, Dr. Gibraeel vowed that if this matter of Deir Abu Hennis village is not resolved, he would bring the matter to UNESCO, being the responsible authority for safeguarding cultures and civilizations. This would be a source of great embarrassment to Egypt and its Minister of Culture who is presently one of the contenders for the President of UNESCO, while in his own country 600 years of Coptic history and culture is being obliterated.

The Plight of the Afghan Woman

The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage. For centuries now in Afghanistan, women have been denied these rights either by official government decree or by their own husbands, fathers, and brothers. During the rule of the Taliban (1996 - 2001), women were treated worse than in any other time or by any other society. They were forbidden to work, leave the house without a male escort, not allowed to seek medical help from a male doctor, and forced to cover themselves from head to toe, even covering their eyes. Women who were doctors and teachers before, suddenly were forced to be beggars and even prostitutes in order to feed their families.
Since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, many would agree that the political and cultural position of Afghan women has improved substantially. The recently adopted Afghan constitution states that "the citizens of Afghanistan - whether man or woman- have equal rights and duties before the law". So far, women have been allowed to return back to work, the government no longer forces them to wear the all covering burqa, and they even have been appointed to prominent positions in the government. Despite all these changes many challenges still remain. The repression of women is still prevalent in rural areas where many families still restrict their own mothers, daughters, wives and sisters from participation in public life. They are still forced into marriages and denied a basic education. Numerous school for girls have been burned down and little girls have even been poisoned to death for daring to go to school.

Who are we

The World Minorities United for Peace is a non-profit organization established June 5th, 2009. Our motto is a verse from the bible: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” Our goal is to establish peace for all the minorities in the Middle East and around the world as well. We believe that peace in Israel, which is a minority in the Islamic Middle East, will cause peace in the whole area. That’s why we believe that minorities in the Middle East and in Israel should unite together for peace.
We believe that peace for the minorities in the Islamic countries should be an international goal for the whole world. Peace is meaningless if countries keep signing treaties for human rights and religious freedom while Islamic countries do not enforce the implementation of such treaties.
The Minorities include:
- The Copts and the Baha’is in Egypt.
- Christians in Iraq
- The Maroonites in Lebabon
- Christians of Darfur in Sudan
- Christians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
- Bosnia
- Returning the region of Crete to Greece.
- The disarming of all fanatic Islamic groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and others. We believe that those who are not working for peace are working against it. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

. . . . . . . . . . الاتحاد العالمى للاقليات من اجل السلام